Field Notes

From the ConnectEd Circles Team

Clinical reflections, practical tools, and honest thinking on early childhood development, attachment, and neurodiversity-affirming practice.

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Attachment & Relationships

Circle of Security, secure base concepts, rupture and repair, and how the quality of adult relationships shapes children’s developing brains.

Neurodiversity & Autism

Strengths-based perspectives on autistic experience, TEACCH methods, DIR/Floortime, identity-first language, and supporting neurodivergent children in classrooms and at home.

Reflective Practice

What it means to be a reflective practitioner, how reflective supervision works, and why the parallel process matters for everyone in a child’s care system.

Families & Caregivers

Practical tools and honest conversation for parents and caregivers navigating diagnosis, IEP processes, school systems, and the emotional labor of raising young children.

Community & Equity

Anti-racist practice, decolonizing infant mental health, supporting bilingual families, and what community resilience actually looks like in Western North Carolina.

Research & Evidence

Making sense of early childhood research for practitioners: what the studies actually say, what they don’t, and how to translate findings into daily practice.

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